Covid-19 News

Just a week ago Eli warned it's treatment could fail based on new mutations. Today.........

Drug Prevents Coronavirus Infection in Nursing Homes, Maker Claims

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/0…oronavirus-eli-lilly.html

An unusual experiment to prevent nursing home staff members and residents from infection with the coronavirus has succeeded, the drug maker Eli Lilly announced on Thursday.

A drug containing monoclonal antibodies — laboratory-grown virus-fighters — prevented symptomatic infections in residents who were exposed to the virus, even the frail older people who are most vulnerable, according to preliminary results of a study conducted in partnership with the National Institutes of Health.

The researchers found an 80 percent reduction in infections among residents who got the drug, compared with those who got a placebo, and a 60 percent reduction among the staff, results that were highly statistically powerful, Eli Lilly said.

The data have not yet been peer-reviewed or published. The company expects to present the findings at a future medical meeting and to publish them in a peer-reviewed journal, but did not say when.

BBC article; Pathways out of lockdown.

Article on UK vaccinations and how soon we can expect to exit lockdown.

Final part of article reminds me of many of the discussions on here on lockdown to lower fatalities vs damage to economy and how much people will tolerate.

Final part of article;

Once schools are open some tough calls will have to be made - and this is where the debate is going to rage.

Backbench Tory MPs are putting the pressure on the prime minister with the Covid Recovery Group calling for a "gradually unwrapping" of society from early March.

In the end, it is going to come down to what society is willing to tolerate.

UK chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty has spoken about "de-risking" Covid.

His point is that we will reach a situation at which the level of death and illness caused by Covid is at a level society can "tolerate" - just as we tolerate 7,000 to 20,000 people dying from flu every year.

Sociologist Prof Robert Dingwall, who advises the government on the science of human behaviour, believes that point will be reached sooner rather than later.

"I think we will see a pretty rapid lifting of restrictions in the spring and summer.

"There are some sections of the science community that want to pursue an elimination strategy - but once you start seeing fatality levels down at the level of flu I think the public will accept that."

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BBC article; Pathways out of lockdown.

Article on UK vaccinations and how soon we can expect to exit lockdown.

Final part of article reminds me of many of the discussions on here on lockdown to lower fatalities vs damage to economy and how much people will tolerate.

Final part of article;

Once schools are open some tough calls will have to be made - and this is where the debate is going to rage.

Backbench Tory MPs are putting the pressure on the prime minister with the Covid Recovery Group calling for a "gradually unwrapping" of society from early March.

In the end, it is going to come down to what society is willing to tolerate.

UK chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty has spoken about "de-risking" Covid.

His point is that we will reach a situation at which the level of death and illness caused by Covid is at a level society can "tolerate" - just as we tolerate 7,000 to 20,000 people dying from flu every year.

Sociologist Prof Robert Dingwall, who advises the government on the science of human behaviour, believes that point will be reached sooner rather than later.

"I think we will see a pretty rapid lifting of restrictions in the spring and summer.

"There are some sections of the science community that want to pursue an elimination strategy - but once you start seeing fatality levels down at the level of flu I think the public will accept that."

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So much for humanity, levels the public will accept?

Fast-spreading COVID variant can elude immune responses

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00121-z

Evidence is growing that some coronavirus variants could evade immune responses triggered by vaccines and previous infection. Researchers are trying to make sense of a tsunami of lab studies released this week that raise concerns about some emerging variants and mutations.

“Some of the data I’ve seen in the last 48 hours have really scared me,” says Daniel Altmann, an immunologist at Imperial College London, who worries that some of results could portend less effective COVID-19 vaccines.

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“Some of the data I’ve seen in the last 48 hours have really scared me,” says Daniel Altmann, an immunologist at Imperial College London, who worries that some of results could portend less effective COVID-19 vaccines.

I just told a friend that the big pharma mafia game nears its end and the vaccination dream just now blows up!

Ivermectin will end the pandemic. Just look at the death rates of some early adapters.

Why do people tolerate these pains and still complain about Trump and no masks??? First eliminate the true killers! E.g. the ones selling/recommending dirty cheap masks for 20x price giving almost no protection for aerosols.

Israel coronavirus cases soar even as it pushes on with vaccine drive

https://news.google.com/articl…=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

At Rambam, one of the largest hospitals in the country, the impact of the new variant is already showing. More than 250 staff members have been forced into isolation since December, when the new variant was first detected in Israel, compared with just 10 between the beginning of the pandemic and last month. Severely and critically ill patients now make up two-thirds of the cases, compared with a quarter previously.

“This is something different,” said Michael Halberthal, chief executive of Rambam. “It’s just the tip of the iceberg.”

COVID ‘could have been contained’: Taiwan’s ex-health minister

Dr Chen Chien-jen says prompt action in December 2019 could have averted a pandemic that has now killed more than two million people

https://news.google.com/articl…=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen.

The coronavirus pandemic could have been contained if the authorities in Wuhan had notified the World Health Organization earlier and allowed an expert team to investigate in December 2019, according to Dr Chen Chien-jen, Taiwan’s former vice-president and health minister who made his name during the SARS [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome] outbreak nearly 20 years ago.

“Transparency and openness is very important for the containment of infectious diseases,” Dr Chen told Al Jazeera in an interview. “If the situation in Wuhan was very well reported to the World Health Organisation and the WHO organised a team and went to Wuhan in mid-December 2019, I think the disease could have been contained and no other countries would have suffered.”

Wellness expert Deepak Chopra wants Biden to rethink health care

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/…-rethink-health-care.html

Global wellness expert Deepak Chopra told CNBC that he would like to see the administration of incoming President Joe Biden involved in "democratizing well-being" and addressing "true health reform."

Chopra, a worldwide leading figure in integrative medicine and meditation, said talk of health reform in the U.S. today mainly revolved around insurance reform and payments for health services.

True health reform means giving people the tools for prevention and also for lifestyle measures that can help them not only prevent disease, but actually reverse a lot of chronic disease," he said.

"The new administration should have a full department on the future of well-being as prevention and self-regulation, giving people the tools and even helping pay for them," he added.

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I wouldn't go that far, but with each day passing and ignoring the more and more obvious evidence about IVM we are coming close..... IMO it is the inability of an official "expert" (doctor, etc....) to make up his/her own mind and look a little bit further out of the window. (this is NOT appreciated in our system and this is also true for LENR)

And certainly it is fear to do something wrong, so you stick to the common rules of the health authorities and don't dare to raise doubts or have your own opinion. If you are brave enough to have your own opinion, even backed with evidence, you will have a difficult stand and in the end you will be singled out and sorted out!

You will be labeled a blasphemer, a heretic, a trouble maker and rabble rouser then expunged from the community.

After which you will be thrown back into a

Re-education camp to be re-programmed.

You have no idea of the power of the dark side of the force, you MUST obey your master

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And the murderers are the doctors, regulatory authorities, licensing bodies and pharmaceuticals who followed their own rules and not science. The medical establishment got it all wrong.

Assume for the sake of argument you are right, and the doctors got it wrong. That was not deliberate. The medical establishment sincerely concluded that hydroxychloroquine does not work. Whereas politicians who used masks as a way of dividing the electorate and winning elections knew that masks actually help.

You are mistaken when you say the medical establishment rejected ivermectin and vitamin D. These are in widespread use. Hydroxychloroquine was tested in very large blind tests, and most of those tests failed to show an effect. It is possible the tests were faulty and it actually does work in some circumstances. But doctors and researchers must go with the best information they can. They must judge the situation with the data they have. So, it is reasonable for them to reject this drug.

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Chopra, a worldwide leading figure in integrative medicine and meditation,

Chopra is the world's leading bullshit artist. You can read what he says, or you can automatically generate new Chopra wisdom with this automatic online quote generator:

http://wisdomofchopra.com/

They are equally profound and meaningful. For extra impact, I have been told that smoking pot will enhance your appreciation for his profundity.

Auto-generated Chopra wisdom is indistinguishable from the human version. That is a kind of reverse version of the Turing test, making him the first certified example of sentient (?) AI:

"Infinity is the path to sub empirical belonging"

"Nature opens immortal chaos"

"Death is the ground of irrational space time events"

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The coronavirus pandemic could have been contained if the authorities in Wuhan had notified the World Health Organization earlier and allowed an expert team to investigate in December 2019,

They did not need to the WHO to contain it. They could have done it themselves. They would have, if the politicians had not interfered. The examples of China and the U.S. show the danger of letting politicians make public health decisions.

As could every Governor in the U.S. but none of them had the stones to make that politically unpopular decision.

Our Governor, (Pritzker, a bajillionaire, was photographed in Lake Geneva during the no travel requirements), allowed his wife and children to fly to Florida for vacation for spring break.

Because even if the Governors did, a % of the population would not have obeyed, leaving the local governments trying the failed approach of contact tracing and follow up.

If this epidemic turns out to be a manufactured and purpose built virus, WWII

will look like a bar fight.

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As could every Governor in the U.S. but none of them had the stones to make that politically unpopular decision.

Our Governor, (Pritzker, a bajillionaire, was photographed in Lake Geneva during the no travel requirements), allowed his wife and children to fly to Florida for vacation for spring break.

Because even if the Governors did, a % of the population would not have obeyed, leaving the local governments trying the failed approach of contact tracing and follow up.

If this epidemic turns out to be a manufactured and purpose built virus, WWII

will look like a bar fight.

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They will try to confuse with the media and trolls, but of course it was lab generated. Do you think Wuhan Institute of Virology works on coronaviruses without an objective (funded by Fauci). When people expect the people who did it must first confess, to tell them the truth to validate their lie, before allowing facts to stand...we must think they have been abused. Abusers make you question your reality before you accept they are actually abusers. Wake up.

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But doctors and researchers must go with the best information they can.

But who gives them the information???

The highly corrupt pharma mafia inside FDA/CDC/WHO ?? Or competent specialists hard working doctors of FLCCC ???

As I already mentioned: The vaccination with Pfizers narrow RNA already failed. Going on is now criminal and will only force the more bad strain to survive. Look at Israel and the development of the story.

Stop Bidens 100mio. idea or tell him to use a better vaccine! Of course Pfizer already officially stopped the production and wants to change it. But the new adapted vaccine then is not tested by a single person !!!

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Chopra is the world's leading bullshit artist. You can read what he says, or you can automatically generate new Chopra wisdom with this automatic online quote generator:

http://wisdomofchopra.com/

They are equally profound and meaningful. For extra impact, I have been told that smoking pot will enhance your appreciation for his profundity.

Auto-generated Chopra wisdom is indistinguishable from the human version. That is a kind of reverse version of the Turing test, making him the first certified example of sentient (?) AI:

"Infinity is the path to sub empirical belonging"

"Nature opens immortal chaos"

"Death is the ground of irrational space time events"

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As usual you attack the character, while the message goes floating right over that narrow mind of yours

True health reform means giving people the tools for prevention and also for lifestyle measures that can help them not only prevent disease, but actually reverse a lot of chronic disease," he said.

"The new administration should have a full department on the future of well-being as prevention and self-regulation, giving people the tools and even helping pay for them," he added.

Quote from Fm1

"The new administration should have a full department on the future of well-being as prevention and self-regulation, giving people the tools and even helping pay for them," he added.

This would lead to at least a socialist defamation... With such a law big pharma makes no money, only hundred thousands of therapists. Same with Ivermectin & CoV-19. Hospitals would be empty!

How many tears will flow if the income drops from one billion to one million only ?? If we could use dirty cheap side effect free drugs, that even don't need a nurse for applying it. This is against blood-sucker fascist-capitalism rules!

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This would lead to at least a socialist defamation... With such a law big pharma makes no money, only hundred thousands of therapists. Same with Ivermectin & CoV-19. Hospitals would be empty!

How many tears will flow if the income drops from one billion to one million only ?? If we could use dirty cheap side effect free drugs, that even don't need a nurse for applying it. This is against blood-sucker fascist-capitalism rules!

Those afraid of socialism, don't worry - they are not interested in helping us - it is technocracy (techno-fascism) they want.

You can't understand covid19 without understanding the financial system. How many people know anything about that?

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As I expected, the Trump administration had essentially no plans to roll out the vaccine. They had no other plans to deal with COVID-19, so this is not surprising. They ditched all earlier plans last April, leaving it up to the states to deal with the pandemic. See:

How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”

https://www.vanityfair.com/new…n-went-poof-into-thin-air

It was not that they had insufficient plans for the roll-out. They had no plans at all. They did not even know how many doses were available. See:

Biden inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan and must start 'from scratch,' sources say

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21…cination-trump/index.html

[There was] . . . a complete lack of a vaccine distribution strategy under former President Donald Trump, even weeks after multiple vaccines were approved for use in the United States.

"There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch," one source said.

White House Covid coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters on Wednesday that he was still confident that the administration can meet its 100 million vaccine shots in 100 days target.

"For almost a year now, Americans could not look to the federal government for any strategy, let alone a comprehensive approach to respond to Covid," Zients said. "And we've seen the tragic costs of that failure. As President Biden steps into office today ... that'll change tomorrow."

Other details:

‘Worse Than We Imagined’: Team Trump Left Biden a COVID Nightmare

https://www.thedailybeast.com/…iden-a-covid-19-nightmare

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Fauci debunks CNN reporting, says Biden's vaccine rollout not 'starting from scratch'

https://www.foxnews.com/media/…porting-trump-had-no-plan

Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared Thursday to completely debunk CNN's much-criticized report that the Biden administration was "starting from scratch" with its coronavirus vaccine rollout after anonymous sources claimed that the new White House inherited "no plan" from the Trump administration.

Earlier in the day, CNN quoted unnamed Biden officials alleging that "There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch," as well as that the new administration would have to start from "square one

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Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared Thursday to completely debunk CNN's much-criticized report that the Biden administration was "starting from scratch" with its coronavirus vaccine rollout after anonymous sources claimed that the new White House inherited "no plan" from the Trump administration.

The original statement was somewhat exaggerated. They did have a plan, but it was incomplete and defective. Not only anonymous sources said things were bad. So did official sources. The Biden admin. COVID coordinator said on Jan. 19: "For almost a year now, Americans could not look to the federal government for any strategy, let alone a comprehensive approach to respond to Covid. And we've seen the tragic costs of that failure. As President Biden steps into office today ... that'll change tomorrow."

I have some scientist friends at HHS and elsewhere fairly high in the government. They told me some time ago that that the COVID response was "much worse than you can imagine." Complete chaos. You can see that from the fact that they did not even know how many doses were on hand, and they promised to send out a reserve they did not have.

Fauci said this at a White House press conference. His words:

"We're certainly not starting from scratch, because there is activity going on in the distribution," Fauci said, adding that the Biden administration is "amplifying" in significant ways existing vaccine distribution efforts.

"I mean we're coming in with fresh ideas, but also some ideas with ... the previous administration. You can't say it was absolutely not usable at all," Fauci said.

"You can't say it was absolutely not usable at all" is not a ringing endorsement. What I have heard is that you can say it was mostly not usable.